BBC Radio always comes up with the goods, doesn it?\u00a0 I wrote The Parliament of Spies to the sound of their Mozart fest in 2011, now it’s a baroque spring – joy!<\/p>\n
The other night Tim Marlow the art historican presented a fascinating programme on the soundscapes artists work with.\u00a0 Do you work in silence or to music?\u00a0 Until the Mozart fest I always worked\u00a0 in silence or, sometimes, to the repetitive grind of garage or house so it was interesting to hear Tracey Emin say she played the same\u00a0tune over and over again throughout the day to get into that creative trance state\u00a0 we all need.\u00a0 Rachel Whiteread mentioned medieval polyphony and it suggests we need something to take off that superficial layer of attention to get down to\u00a0 deeper and creative source.\u00a0 Some pople say they can only work if there’s the roar of traffic in the background, or the constant sound of the sea, or the rabble of a\u00a0busy cafe.\u00a0\u00a0 Each to his own.\u00a0 Can the neuroscientists explain it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BBC Radio always comes up with the goods, doesn it?\u00a0 I wrote The Parliament of Spies to the sound of their Mozart fest in 2011, now it’s a baroque spring – joy! The other night Tim Marlow the art historican presented a fascinating programme on the soundscapes artists work with.\u00a0 Do you work in silence or to music?\u00a0 Until the Mozart fest I always worked\u00a0 in silence or, sometimes, to the repetitive grind of garage or house so it was interesting to hear Tracey Emin say she played the same\u00a0tune over and over again throughout the day to get into<\/p>\n[Read More...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}